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TIL in 1991 two English pranksters took credit for many of Britain's crop circles, after an investigator declared one example "impossible for human beings to make". After some refused to believe them, Bower and Chorley started adding straight lines and squares to show they weren't natural.

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wEM6 TIL in NY state if you are a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, even once you can never donate blood
lkQ1 TIL that redheads don’t feel pain the same way as other people. They are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, but more sensitive to thermal pain.
d88y7 TIL Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
65o7 TIL that ultra-marathoner Marshall Ulrich had all his toenails pulled out to allow him to run more efficiently.
DO9Y TIL that “Karma” in the way most people use and know it as is not actually Karma. Karma is something to be inherited in the next life, not in this current life, according to Buddhist philosophy.